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I can post pictures. I do not want to bend the wires that come off the battery pack. I would have to bend them 90* and I just don't see how that could be good for the pack. I don't know what packs you have, but these will not go through the stock opening on the right side of the truck.

I mentioned what packs I have. Lets not beat a dead horse. MANY people run the SPC packs the standard way. You don't WANT to. That is different from not being able to. Pictures won't do any better for me than the packs I have in hand.

Edit: Perhaps pics will benefit others...SPC 8200mAh battery with no damage to wires

I mentioned what packs I have. Lets not beat a dead horse. MANY people run the SPC packs the standard way. You don't WANT to. That is different from not being able to. Pictures won't do any better for me than the packs I have in hand.

Edit: Perhaps pics will benefit others...SPC 8200mAh battery with no damage to wires

I am very sorry. I didn't mean to offend anyone. I guess I wasn't trying to beat a dead horse, just stating what I thought. Apparently I have had bad luck doing that in these forums lately. Time for a break I guess.

And you are completely wrong. It's not that I didn't want to run them that way. Do you really think I wanted to spend the time to cut out the fins on the vents and do all the extra stuff to make the batteries work the way I thought they had to?? No way!

Maybe instead of saying that I can't use my batteries the way you are, I should have asked if it's OK to bend the wires that far, because apparently you are. My batteries showed up and the wires were straight up like yours and I called and talked to Tom. He told me it was OK to put some pressure on the wires but I really thought bending them at 90* (like you are) would be bad for the batteries. I guess I was wrong. When you just drop that much cash on new batteries, the last thing you wanna do is screw them up.

I will try and keep my opinions to myself. Again, I am sorry for offending anyone.

I believe the 206 only has a 6s out balance connecter.
the board is to allow
Balance charging 2s or 3s ...up to a 6 s.
The para board in this case would take the place of the included board like so
Batteries turned away for security reasons. 2 2s 5000 mah balance charging at 1c 10 amps

Most are JST-XH... so is your charger.
If you are ever going to get a battery that takes something different than JST-XH, get that balance board. In reality, you probably will not ever need one; so if you are paying for it, don't get it.

Jamann... you cannot know everything there is to know about everything there is to know about. That is why we are a community... we all collectively probably know everything there is to know about everything we know about.

Most are JST-XH... so is your charger.
If you are ever going to get a battery that takes something different than JST-XH, get that balance board. In reality, you probably will not ever need one; so if you are paying for it, don't get it.

Jamann... you cannot know everything there is to know about everything there is to know about. That is why we are a community... we all collectively probably know everything there is to know about everything we know about.

(untwist that! lol)

So what you are saying is, if we all knew everything there is too know about what we know.then this forum would be redundant and this conversation would have never taken place.wow now I'm lost.
what Jimmie said before the conversation that may have never taken place.would be the better and more complete answer.

This thread is helping me love my onyx 245 charger lol. Both ac and dc plugs, dual charger, charges four types of batteries. The only thing is it cant discharge. I talked with onyx and my lhs, and they said you really dont need to discharge them (lipos). Not sure if i believe them, but the two guys working at the lhs havent discharged their lipos ever, and they have had them for roughly two years so far, going up to a month at times not using them. And they say that they still work just fine.

Storing a high performance LiPo pack at or near full capacity is known to damage the pack in several ways. Just because someone claims their pack is fine after storing at full charge, does not mean it is right.

Storing a high performance LiPo pack at or near full capacity is known to damage the pack in several ways. Just because someone claims their pack is fine after storing at full charge, does not mean it is right.

Not saying i don't believe you, have you know this to happen to anybody? Personal experience? I never leave mine fully charged, i run em down and leave it like that until its time to run them again, it takes about 48minutes to charge both of them. 8000mah lipos

Yes, I have actually measured capacity loss and IR increases in packs that were stored at full charge.

One question, was this a controlled experiment? Did you have another set of lipos that you would discharge to recommended level 3.5-3.6 . Just to asses whether the loss of capacity was just natural loss over time.

One question, was this a controlled experiment? Did you have another set of lipos that you would discharge to recommended level 3.5-3.6 . Just to asses whether the loss of capacity was just natural loss over time.

It's well documented that you don't store lipos at full charge or fully drained for any extended period of time.

Okay, well then thats that. I am curious what the life difference will be. For instance: A) a pair of 8000mah lipo batteries who are consistently drained down to 3.6-3.8 ( lvd cutoff?) from normal bashing,

B) a pair of 8000 mah lipos that are run the same amount of times, run down to lvd shut off (3.6-3.8) and then discharged down to 3.4-3.5 (considered proper discharge amperage)

Both of these pairs of batteries are run twice a week, mondays and fridays for a year. In your scientific opinion, how much loss in capacity would the non discharged pair of lipos suffer, compared to the discharged pair? And, what does that equate to in run time?

Originally Posted by happymachinist

It's well documented that you don't store lipos at full charge or fully drained for any extended period of time.

Sent from my iPhone using autocorrect

Originally Posted by Jimmie Neutron

Jakey is a battery genius...
Just thought I would add that to this conversation.

One question, was this a controlled experiment? Did you have another set of lipos that you would discharge to recommended level 3.5-3.6 . Just to asses whether the loss of capacity was just natural loss over time.

Okay, well then thats that. I am curious what the life difference will be. For instance: A) a pair of 8000mah lipo batteries who are consistently drained down to 3.6-3.8 ( lvd cutoff?) from normal bashing,

B) a pair of 8000 mah lipos that are run the same amount of times, run down to lvd shut off (3.6-3.8) and then discharged down to 3.4-3.5 (considered proper discharge amperage)

Both of these pairs of batteries are run twice a week, mondays and fridays for a year. In your scientific opinion, how much loss in capacity would the non discharged pair of lipos suffer, compared to the discharged pair? And, what does that equate to in run time?

Yo need to define the voltage level a little more clearly. Are the figures of of 3.6-3.8 V/cell and then 3.4-3.5 V/cell measured as resting voltages or measured as voltage under load?